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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hello!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This
solution might not be of help for you in this stage, but in case you decide do
copy-paste text from an Adobe PDF file to a word processor, this tool might be of
interest to you:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>AutoUnbreal 1.01: Simple application that removes line breaks from
formatted (or plain) text input<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>AutoUnbreak
removes line breaks from formatted (or plain) text input. This is useful if you
want to reformat a text document, where lines have been cut short, e.g. when
copying text from an Adobe PDF file to a word processor. Thus, the program
removes any extraneous lines. AutoUnbreak will remove these carriage returns/
line breaks in a very smart manner. For instance it will try to reconstruct any
hyphenated words and it will not merge lines if they e.g. are a part of a
numbered or bulleted list. AutoUnbreak is customizable and you can change its
"rules" by altering the plain text files "merge.set" and
"exceptions.set" to fit your needs: <a
href="http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Other-Office-Tools/AutoUnbreak.shtml">http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Other-Office-Tools/AutoUnbreak.shtml</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ana
Rita Remígio<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>University
of Aveiro<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
corpora-bounces@uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no] <b>On Behalf Of </b>John
MCKENNY<br>
<b>Sent:</b> quarta-feira, 16 de Junho de 2010 11:40<br>
<b>To:</b> corpora@uib.no<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Corpora-List] converting PDFs to ASCII or text-only files
without clumps<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Does anyone have a solution to the
problem we are facing in a corpus linguistic research project? We have been
given permission by the publishers and editors to download all issues of
a journal from the last 30 years obtainable from our university e-library in
the form of PDFs amounting to about 3,000,000 words. Starting with a small
sample (250,000 words), we tried using various methods and software
including Wordsmith Tools 5 to convert the PDFs into text-only files. The
result so far has been text-only files with many words clumped together
e.g. ‘inthefinalanalysisitseems’. Breaking up these clumps is
a time-consuming business. For this reason, we haven’t started compiling
our larger corpus. We would only build the larger corpus if there was some kind
of automated or semi-automated way to generate text-only files which contained
all and only the alphanumeric sequences bounded by spaces in the original PDFs,
in other words, without clumps.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>We would be very grateful for any
suggestions you might have.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Best wishes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>John McKenny<br>
Deputy Head of the Division of English Studies<br>
University of Nottingham Ningbo, China</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><br>
</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>199
Taikang Dong Lu<br>
Ningbo, Zhejiang Province<br>
P.R.China 315100<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="mailto:john.mckenny@nottingham.edu.cn">john.mckenny@nottingham.edu.cn</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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